Where the River Begins

(Donde Comienza el Río)

Feature narrative

Director: Juan Andrés Arango

102 mins

Synopsis

Yajaira, a young but strong Embera woman, lives with her daughter Maria in a violent Bogotá neighborhood. Haunted by dreams of the jungle, she longs to return to the village she once called home. After a tragedy strikes, they have no choice but to leave. Jhon, a charismatic young gang member, joins them on their dangerous journey to the Andágueda River, driven by motives he keeps hidden.

Donde Comienza el Río is a poignant, poetic film where a perilous escape becomes a journey of healing. As the jungle reemerges through memory and dream, masks fall and reality is touched by the magic of Yajaira’s inner world.

Production

A Canada, Colombia and Norway co-production

Midi La Nuit, 12PM, Inercia Películas, STÆR

Festivals

2026 - Toronto International Film Festival

2026 - Vancouver International Film Festival

2026- FNC Festvival du Nouveau Cinema

Audiance award - Prix de la Paix

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Shimmering Shadows

(Les ombres lumineuses)

Feature Documentary

Director: Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière

90 mins

Synopsis

The Shimmering Shadows is a documentary about moose hunting. It is a film about the land where it takes root and those who inhabit it: humans and animals, who both encounter each other and seek each other out there.

Production

Embuscade Films

Festivals

2026- FNC Festival du Nouveau Cinema

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Shifting Baselines

Feature Documentary

Director: Julien Elie

100 mins

Synopsis

Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage. Welcome to Boca Chica, USA.

Production

GreenGrond Production

Festivals

2025 - Vision du Réel

2025 - Hotdocs International Film Festival

2025- Festival du Nouveau Cinema

2025- NYC DOC

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Une Lange Universelle

(Universal Language)

Feature Narrative, Experimental

Director: Matthew Rankin

89 mins

Synopsis

Two women find frozen cash, try to retrieve it. A tour guide leads confused tourists around Winnipeg sites. A man quits his job, visits his mother. Storylines intertwine surreally as identities blur in a disorienting comedy.

Production

Metafilms

Festivals

2025 IRIS AWARDS - 13 Nominations

2025 CSA AWARDS - Winner of 6 Awards

Shortlisted for Best International Feature for the Oscars

2024 - Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival - Audience Award

2024 - Toronto International Film Festival

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Lucky Star

Feature Narrative Film

Director: Gillian Mckercher

85 mins

Synopsis

When reformed gambler Lucky falls victim to a tax scam, he returns to playing poker to make the money back. Meanwhile, his family tries to make ends meet by resorting to their own morally dubious strategies. Lucky Star is a family drama about fatherly love, deceit, and redemption, and a slice of life of the Chinese-prairie diaspora.

Production

Kino Sum & Notable Content

Festivals

2024 Calgary International Film Festival, Closing Gala Film

2024 Vancouver International Film Festival

2024 Reel Asian International Film Festival

2024 Windsor International Film Festival

VOD on Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft, and VUDU (US only)

La Garde Blanche

(The White Guard)

Feature Documentary

Director: Julien Elie

109 mins

Synopsis

The White Guard is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Julien Élie and released in 2023. A followup to his 2018 film Dark Suns, the film delves further into the issue of violence in Mexico, profiling the collusion between multinational industry, organized crime and the government of Mexico to expropriate land and exploit people and natural resources.

Production

Metafilms and Cinema Palmopan

Festivals

2023- RIDM - Magnus Isacsson Award and Student Jury Award

Caiti Blues

Feature Documentary

Director: Justine Harbonnie

84mins

Synopsis

Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.

Production

Cinquième Maison and Sister Productions - Nellie Carrier and Julie Paratian

Festivals

2023 - ACID CANNES

2023 - HotDOCS - Special Juy Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary Film

2023- Vision Du Réel

Cette Maison

(This House)

Hybrid Documentary

Director: Miryam Charles

75mins

Synopsis

Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.

Production

Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Embuscade Films)

Festivals

2022- Berlinale 72 - Forum

2022 - ART of the Reel

2022 - HotDocs

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S H O R T F I L M S

IMICHIKI

Short fiction

Director: Yza Nouiga

15 mins

Synopsis

In 1975, in a village in southern Morocco, a young illiterate woman’s attempt to write to her absent husband becomes an intimate act of resistance against silence, distance, and the limits imposed on her world.

Production

Les Films Cosmos

Festivals

2026 - Toronto International Film Festival - Short Cuts 6

2026 - FNC Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - National Competition 3

2026 - Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt

The Highway

(公路)

Short fiction

Director: Yung Chang

15 mins

Synopsis

In Chongqing, China, a successful businesswoman encounters the aftermath of a highway hit-and-run—a body discarded like roadkill, a grim rural reality. Haunted by what she has witnessed, she returns to the scene. The Highway asks: Where is the moral line between action and inaction?

Production

Yung Films, 闪雀映画, MDFF

Festivals

2026 - Toronto International Film Festival - Short Cuts 1

La chaleur du dauphin

(I Am The Heir)

Short fiction

Director: Lou Scamble

19 mins

Synopsis

Confined to a medicinal bath by a rare illness, young Ophélie dreams of walking to the moon. She lives with her mother, Madame, a fragile and obsessive puppet sustained by the letters she receives. But when a new, foul-smelling letter arrives, the delicate balance of their small world begins to crack.

Production

Azimut Films

Festivals

2026 - FNC Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - National Competition 3

Special Mention of Jury Prize

Fantas

Short fiction

Director: Halima Elkhatabi

12 mins

Synopsis

Worlds and genres collide one summer afternoon as a young woman and her horse make a surprising and eventful odyssey in this richly cinematic drama by Montreal's Halima Elkhatabi

Production

Les Films de L'autre

Festivals

2024 - Toronto International Film Festival - Short Cuts 1

Sing Me a Lullaby

Short Documentary

Director: Tiffany Hsiung

29mins

Synopsis

In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.

Production

Golden Nugget Productions and CBC Gem

Festivals

2022 - Toronto International Film Festival - Share Her Journey award

2020 - TIFF Top 10 Short Films

2020 - NYC DOC - Best Documentary Short Film

2021 - Canadian Screen Awards - Best Short Documentary

THE NEW YORKER SHOWCASE

Clebs (Mutts)

Short Documentary

Director: Halima Ouardiri

18mins

Synopsis

The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.

Production

Producer: Halima Ouardiri

Festivals

2020 - Berlinale 70 - Generation 14+ Crystal Bear

Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film

2020 - RENDEZ-VOUS QUEBEC CINEMA - Best Documentary Short Film

2019 - FICFA - Prix La Vague for Best Short Film

2019 - RIDM Official Selection

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